A 10-year-old rape victim sought an abortion. A judge urged: Stay pregnant.
The procedure is legal in Brazil only in cases of rape, incest or severe abnormality. But critics say even women with a permissible reason face resistance.
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These candidates lost badly, but now are claiming fraud
Former President Trump’s influence is growing — with fringe candidates, who are refusing to admit defeat even after they’ve been trounced.
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11 people are registered to vote at an old farm in Loving County, Texas. But the sheriff says no one lives there.
Eleven people are registered to vote at an old farm in Loving County, Texas. But the sheriff says no one lives there.
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Alabama cites Roe v. Wade decision in transgender youth case
Just days after the U.S. Supreme Court abolished women’s constitutional right to abortion, Alabama has cited that ruling in a bid to outlaw parents from obtaining puberty blockers and certain other medical treatment for their transgender children.
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Court Blocks DA Investigating Cops Involved in Black Man’s Death
A judge has issued a ruling that could hurt efforts to investigate and possibly prosecute the cops involved in last October’s death of a Black Pittsburgh man who was suffering from homelessness. Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala’s office had asked Judge the Allegheny County’s Court of Common Pleas for the right to review a 15-page report on the incident that killed 54-year-old Jim Rogers. Rogers died in a hospital the day after he was shocked eight times with a Taser by cops.
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Out-of-control SpaceX rocket on collision course with moon
Falcon 9 booster, launched from Florida in 2015 to deploy Deep Space Climate Observatory, has followed ‘chaotic’ orbit since
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‘It Was All Just a Show’: Confessions of a Republican Campaign Hit Man
Tim Miller’s new book reveals the ways he and his fellow GOP operatives poisoned the national discourse and helped enable the rise of Donald Trump.
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Hello Ten Bears. Thank you. The more we know of the attempts to make this country a theocracy the better able to fend them off we will be. Hugs
Republicans are absolutely going for the dark, theocratic future
America First Legal (AFL), a right-wing group whose team includes several former Trump administration officials, is urging theSupreme Courtto do even more to shatter what’s left of the wall between church and state.
On Tuesday, June 28, the group issued astatementessentially calling for a total overhaul of theFirst Amendment’s establishment clause, a key provision separating church and state.The statement arrived one day after the Supreme Court cracked part of the clause’s foundation with itsruling in Kennedy v. Bremerton. In that case, the court’s far-right majority ruled that public school officials in Bremerton, Washington, violated the First Amendment rights of high school football coach Joseph Kennedy when they fired him following a controversy stemming from his ritual of praying at the 50-yard line during football games. The 6-3 decision effectively overruled a 1971…
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Hello Ten Bears. Well there really is not much more to add to this, it sums it up very well. Thanks. Hugs
Thank you for a grand point by point breakdown and sharing this information, and as always the comments are right on the mark. Well worth sharing as widely as possible. Hugs
Armed and Dangerous!
Trump knowingly rallied an armed, violent crowd and sent them to attack the Capitol as Congress certified the electoral votes that would remove him from office and replace him with Joe Biden. Game, set, and match.
Trump knew they were armed, he demanded that the Secret Service take away the magnetometers (metal detectors) from the entrances to his speech because his mob couldn’t get in unless they disarmed. “I don’t care if they have weapons, they aren’t here to hurt me. Take the effing mags away… Let them in. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol after the rally is over.” He wanted the optics of a packed rally and was upset that the crowd wouldn’t look big.
Pat Cippollone told her to limit Trump’s movements: “We’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we go up to the Capitol.” – this…
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